Re: Folklore

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <1191762369.725884.322030@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
limtc  <thyechean@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 3 ,   3 20 , heuser.mar...@freenet.de wrote:
> 
>> I've seen my part in shitty bosses but Jobs tops them all.
>> He was an asshole, is an asshole and will be an asshole.
>>
>> bye
>> Marcus
> 
> Maybe in the past he is.

Whether Jobs is an asshole or not really matters only to those who
must deal with him personally.  To the rest of us, Jobs is a media
figure who also leads a company producing products many people want to
buy.  Whether that media figure is an asshole or not doesn't matter
much to these people.  And remember that Jobs is not unique - most top
businessmen are assholes and bullies.  They have to be in order to
survive in the hard cold world of multi-billion dollar business.

> But don't forget he is the one who turns Apple back from a
> dying company to a great media empire.

Yep --- "media empire", not computer company.....   :-)

> Without him there will be no digital music revolution

ROTFLMAO....

Jobs is a prominent figure in the digital music business, true, but
he's *not*, repeat, *not* the only one.  There would absolutely have
been a switch-over to digital music even without Jobs - it's mostly a
matter of the hardware getting cheap enough, small enough, and
powerful enough.  And of course you also need good encoding
algorithms.  Once you've reached that stage, it's mostly a matter of
packaging.  Apple has been prominent only in the packaging part.

> and there will be no iPhone.

That's true of course -- but there are a myriad other phones out
there, so who cares really?  Diehard Apple fans care of course, but 
among the rest of us?

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